Only just getting into photography, got the camera about a year ago today actually.

Been taking the odd shot now and then, but been taking more lately though. Took the below shots this morning. (Except the sat station, that was a couple weeks ago)I'm not liking the difference between the .nef raw file and the compressed jpeg, feel like its a different picture, maybe i'm not exporting correctly?

the most simple way to do raw is1) adjust exposure2) adjust white balanceexport.

if you don't adjust these it will look like ... ermm ... RAW. you know, the raw chicken you buy from the supermarket? raw data. uncooked. the jpeg -> cooked dish. not sophisticated, but something from the takeaways. expert processing = fine dining. finished and presented to the T.suggest do some online studying. took me a few years to perfect the conversion. now learning the other bits that follow. other forms of processing, fixing for printing, fancy stuff like "photoshop" ;p

joker97: i see ... learn something new everyday. but you can also see the "near" snow is also blue

What near snow?Shooting in full daylight, snow in shadows looks blue. So does the shadow on the presumably neutral grey shaded side of the galv iron shed. Use that as a reference for "neutral" grey when adjusting and see what happens to all the colours on the rest of the image. Not surprising - the sky is blue (and what's in the shade isn't being illuminated by the "white" sun).The image is perhaps a little cool in white balance - but not as much as first impression may be.